Running
- John D. Cantwell, MD
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RUNNING is popular these days. CBS refused to preempt a special on marathon running to make way for President Carter's speech on the Panama Canal; the same week, a book on running climbed to the top of the list of nonfiction best sellers. In Atlanta, 6,000 people ran 10 km down Peachtree Street in 31°C weather (last July 4), participating with Olympians Lasse Viren and Frank Shorter. It is estimated that 25 million Americans, approximately 10% of the population, run on a regular basis.
I started running years ago as a freshman medical student at Northwestern University in Chicago. I would find relief from the pressures of anatomy classes by running on the outdoor track adjacent to the school. The track was the scene of my greatest athletic triumph, the place where I broke the world record for the onemile run.
It happened this way. To keep my
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